Colorado is home to athletic excess - gortex and laces and distinct shoes for climbing boulders vs. rockier rocks.
I love this about us. In lieu of Matryoshka dolls, we nest backpacks for storage so that we can carry only what we need and no more for hiking trips. Day trips. Backpacking trips. Overnight trips. And airplane travel.
We are the state that boasts fitness. Strongness. An insatiable urge to recreate in, on, around, above, and through the mountains.
I was sprouted here, but I’ve heard those new to the territory arrive and revere the two-a-day workout. In other states, a regular gym rat would venture to one gym up to three times a week (more if there’s a sauna). In Colorado, as in other realms, it’s common to go twice.
Per day.
Maybe you swim a mile before work, or sneak in a spin at lunch. Cardio HIIT hybrid Pilates after work, or maybe you are the confident sort who regularly walks through the loud (and terrifying) weight room. Things there are so heavy they have a special floor designed for dropping things.
I miss my walks and slow jogs. My evenings at the climbing gym and my favorite weekly (heated) yoga class. I’m better than absolutely no one, and this ditty is pointing most fingers right back at me.
In my time of convalescence and healing, I’ve taken to a few new ways to two-a-day. I urge (dare?) you to consider….
- Two yoga nidra practices
- Two naps
- Two books
- Two viewings of the same show (see naps, above)
- Two different shows
- Two lunches
- Two baths
- Two very short patters about the building
- Two pairs of pants (at once!)
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The end of January found me scrolling through my convalescence in search of connection, awash in a minefield of fitness resurgence. Gyms that would like to give a little oomph before the masses resign their resolutions, tips to drag a sorry, soddened self back onto the sobriety wagon, programs to get all of us through the longer half of winter.
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